Expel
verb
To force someone to leave a place or organization.
The school had to expel the student because of his behavior.
Often appears as...
- expel from school
- expel from the party
verb
To push or send something out.
When you exhale, your lungs expel air.
Often appears as...
- expel air
- expel gas
verb
To officially force someone to leave a country.
The foreign spy was caught and quickly expelled from the country.
Often appears as...
- expel from the country
- government expels
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
verb
To force someone to leave a place or organization.
The school had to expel the student because of his behavior.
Often appears as...
- expel from school
- expel from the party
verb
To push or send something out.
When you exhale, your lungs expel air.
Often appears as...
- expel air
- expel gas
verb
To officially force someone to leave a country.
The foreign spy was caught and quickly expelled from the country.
Often appears as...
- expel from the country
- government expels
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Consequence
Expel often infers serious wrongdoing and is a last resort in schools or organizations.
After the incident, the university decided to expel him.
Pro Tip 2/3Formal Action
Using 'expel' suggests an official, formal decision, not an informal or personal one.
The committee voted to expel the member for violating the rules.
Pro Tip 3/3Irreversibility
When someone is expelled, it's often permanent and not just a suspension.
She was expelled and wasn't allowed to return.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Consequence
Expel often infers serious wrongdoing and is a last resort in schools or organizations.
After the incident, the university decided to expel him.
Pro Tip 2/3Formal Action
Using 'expel' suggests an official, formal decision, not an informal or personal one.
The committee voted to expel the member for violating the rules.
Pro Tip 3/3Irreversibility
When someone is expelled, it's often permanent and not just a suspension.
She was expelled and wasn't allowed to return.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Consequence
Expel often infers serious wrongdoing and is a last resort in schools or organizations.
After the incident, the university decided to expel him.
Pro Tip 2/3Formal Action
Using 'expel' suggests an official, formal decision, not an informal or personal one.
The committee voted to expel the member for violating the rules.
Pro Tip 3/3Irreversibility
When someone is expelled, it's often permanent and not just a suspension.
She was expelled and wasn't allowed to return.
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A day in the life of an...
She hurries back to the house. All the old women from the extended family have already gathered for the birth— their experience is very valuable if anything goes wrong. She readies herself with a prayer praising her most important tools, her fingers. Then she doses the patient with cihuapatli to help expel the baby,
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The science of milk -...
and are then expelled and stored in spaces between cells. Mammary glands eventually secrete the milk through the breasts, udders, or, in the rare case of the platypus, through ducts in the abdomen. Although this process is typically reserved for females, in some species, like dayak fruit bats, goats,
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The mysterious origins...
has become the most favored candidate for the cradle of life. The seawater expelled here is highly alkaline and lacks carbon dioxide, but is rich in methane and offers more hospitable temperatures. Adjacent black smokers may have contributed the carbon dioxide necessary
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Human Body 101 PIPE...
Nutrients are absorbed into the body while solid waste is expelled through the anal canal the end of the digestive tract No matter the roll size or shape of any of the body systems each began with a reproductive system This system is responsible for creating life
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Are the Northern Lights...
compared to those found in deep space. Some neutron stars generate fields 100 billion times stronger than those found in sunspots. And the magnetic fields around supermassive black holes expel jets of gas that extend for thousands of light years.
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Expanding our definition...
office they just pulled him out of school because they assumed he would be expelled and then you know maybe were all the luckier for it because he would often became he'll Gaiman but it wasn't until 30 years later just recently when
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Why is pneumonia so...
which may include either antibacterial or antiviral treatments. Treatment with antibiotics helps the body get the infection under control. As the pathogen is cleared out, the body gradually expels or absorbs fluid and dead cells.
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Anaconda Babies PIPE...
expels about a dozen orange spheroids these are eggs that never developed into babies although anacondas are the largest snakes in the world this trim down mother hasn't eaten in several months you'll have to excuse her if she
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Dena Simmons: How...
I can't help What are our students of color learning about themselves? Three -- three decades of research reveal that students of color are suspended and expelled at a rate three times greater than white students,
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Why Dogs Stick Their...
the side slits in their nostrils as the expelled air rotates it helps draw more sand into the news this two-week current helps a dog gather sand
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A day in the life of an...
She hurries back to the house. All the old women from the extended family have already gathered for the birth— their experience is very valuable if anything goes wrong. She readies herself with a prayer praising her most important tools, her fingers. Then she doses the patient with cihuapatli to help expel the baby,
Video examples
The science of milk -...
and are then expelled and stored in spaces between cells. Mammary glands eventually secrete the milk through the breasts, udders, or, in the rare case of the platypus, through ducts in the abdomen. Although this process is typically reserved for females, in some species, like dayak fruit bats, goats,
Video examples
The mysterious origins...
has become the most favored candidate for the cradle of life. The seawater expelled here is highly alkaline and lacks carbon dioxide, but is rich in methane and offers more hospitable temperatures. Adjacent black smokers may have contributed the carbon dioxide necessary
Video examples
Human Body 101 PIPE...
Nutrients are absorbed into the body while solid waste is expelled through the anal canal the end of the digestive tract No matter the roll size or shape of any of the body systems each began with a reproductive system This system is responsible for creating life
Video examples
Are the Northern Lights...
compared to those found in deep space. Some neutron stars generate fields 100 billion times stronger than those found in sunspots. And the magnetic fields around supermassive black holes expel jets of gas that extend for thousands of light years.
Video examples
Expanding our definition...
office they just pulled him out of school because they assumed he would be expelled and then you know maybe were all the luckier for it because he would often became he'll Gaiman but it wasn't until 30 years later just recently when
Video examples
Why is pneumonia so...
which may include either antibacterial or antiviral treatments. Treatment with antibiotics helps the body get the infection under control. As the pathogen is cleared out, the body gradually expels or absorbs fluid and dead cells.
Video examples
Anaconda Babies PIPE...
expels about a dozen orange spheroids these are eggs that never developed into babies although anacondas are the largest snakes in the world this trim down mother hasn't eaten in several months you'll have to excuse her if she
Video examples
Dena Simmons: How...
I can't help What are our students of color learning about themselves? Three -- three decades of research reveal that students of color are suspended and expelled at a rate three times greater than white students,
Video examples
Why Dogs Stick Their...
the side slits in their nostrils as the expelled air rotates it helps draw more sand into the news this two-week current helps a dog gather sand
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Quote examples
Tony Bellew
British Athlete
When I left school - or, rather, when I was expelled from school for hitting a kid who had disrespected a teacher - I had nothing, with nowhere to go. Where I'm from, it really means that. Now my family are millionaires. I never dreamed this would be possible.
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Tom Sturridge
English Actor
I left school early in my last year before I took my A-levels. I wasn't expelled. It was just a mutual understanding. I wasn't interested in going to school and they said, 'You're not turning up,' so we severed ties. Both sides appreciated it.
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Orison Swett Marden
American Writer
Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.
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Alfie Allen
English Actor
I wasn't expelled for anything vicious, just being cheeky, not doing what I was told, answering back, and always rising to the bait if someone said something annoying about my dad.
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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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George Chapman
English Poet
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
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Poppy Montgomery
Australian Actress
I got expelled from every school I went to in Sydney.
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Tony Judt
British Historian
I don't much mind being expelled from communities.
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Rico Nasty
American Musician
I got expelled from high school my freshman year.
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Katie Price
English Model
I was a real rebel. I got expelled.
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Tony Bellew
British Athlete
When I left school - or, rather, when I was expelled from school for hitting a kid who had disrespected a teacher - I had nothing, with nowhere to go. Where I'm from, it really means that. Now my family are millionaires. I never dreamed this would be possible.
Quote examples
Tom Sturridge
English Actor
I left school early in my last year before I took my A-levels. I wasn't expelled. It was just a mutual understanding. I wasn't interested in going to school and they said, 'You're not turning up,' so we severed ties. Both sides appreciated it.
Quote examples
Orison Swett Marden
American Writer
Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.
Quote examples
Alfie Allen
English Actor
I wasn't expelled for anything vicious, just being cheeky, not doing what I was told, answering back, and always rising to the bait if someone said something annoying about my dad.
Quote examples
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
Quote examples
George Chapman
English Poet
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
Quote examples
Poppy Montgomery
Australian Actress
I got expelled from every school I went to in Sydney.
Quote examples
Tony Judt
British Historian
I don't much mind being expelled from communities.
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Rico Nasty
American Musician
I got expelled from high school my freshman year.
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Katie Price
English Model
I was a real rebel. I got expelled.
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